"In The Female Eunuch, Greer said what women had previously been too polite, too nice, too deferential (and basically too afraid) to say, even though it was obvious: that the vast and overwhelming majority of all of the abuse of women is perpetrated by men, and that this abuse is common and not rare, endemic and not exceptional, excused and condoned rather than condemned and abhorred. And that it comes from hate, not fear. It was crystallised in the famous line from that groundbreaking book: "Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
Now that the latest wave of feminist activism is so fiercely and pleasingly under way, the penny is finally beginning to drop and Greer's devastating insight and wisdom are coming full circle."
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